INTER-AMERICAN WORKSHOP ON ENVIRONMENTAL DATA ACCESS

A. TOWNSEND PETERSON

Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66045 USA
E-mail: town@ku.edu
Phone: (785) 864-3926, Fax: (785) 864-3926

(i) PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION:

B.S., Miami University, Department of Zoology, May 1985
M.S., University of Chicago, Evolutionary Biology, May 1987
Ph.D., University of Chicago, Evolutionary Biology, Dec 1990
Post-doc, Field Museum, Mammalogy and Ornithology, 1991-1992

(ii) APPOINTMENTS:

1999 - present: Associate Professor, 1993-1999 Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Kansas

2000 - present: Curator-in-Charge, 1999-present Associate Curator, 1993-1999 Assistant Curator, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, The University of Kansas

1989 - present: Adjunct Professor, Facultad de Ciencias, Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México

1992 - 1993: Assistant Curator, Department of Zoology, Field Museum

(iii) SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Peterson, A. T., V. Sánchez-Cordero, C. B. Beard, and J. M. Ramsey. 2002. Ecological niche modeling and potential reservoirs for Chagas disease, Mexico. Emerging Infectious Diseases 8:662-667.

Peterson, A. T., and D. A. Vieglais. 2001. Predicting species invasions using ecological niche modeling. BioScience 51:363-371.

Anderson, R. P., D. Lew, and A. T. Peterson. 2002. Selecting best subsets of ecological niche models based on omission and commission error components. Ecological Modelling, in press.

Peterson, A. T., M. A. Ortega-Huerta, J. Bartley, V. Sánchez-Cordero, J. Soberón, R. H. Buddemeier, and D. R. B. Stockwell. 2002. Future projections for Mexican faunas under global climate change scenarios. Nature 416:626-629.

Peterson, A. T., J. Soberón, and V. Sánchez-Cordero. 1999. Conservatism of ecological niches in evolutionary time. Science 285:1265-1267.

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